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"in fact a live Christmas tree should not be inside more than about 2-3 weeks." ...2 to 3 days is more like it.
I've successfully planted many Norway and Blue Spruce, zone 7 over the years....hole was pre-dug, prepared and covered with plywood, tree came indoors on Christmas eve, planted on 12/26. Norway Spruce are much faster growing than Blue.
I might plant a blue spruce, but not a pine tree. I've got so many of those around my lot that I'd give them away to the first person who wanted to cut them down. Do people know what a pine tree looks like as it gets larger?
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Keep it outside in the pot until the ground is warm enough to plant it, or dig the hole now, as someone else mentioned. That's what I would do.
I used a live Norfolk pine as a Christmas tree for many years. They can live indoors if there's enough light. Mine was underneath a skylight, grew to 12 feet or so.
Yes, Norfolk’s can stay inside, we have one, and at work the office has several 6-8’ tall. They are tropical, and not really a Pine despite the name, but can make a nice Christmas tree.
I bought a Christmas tree with a root ball one time and planted it in the ground later on. Can't remember how I did it. The ground is frozen solid in winter so I think I must have taken the tree outside after Christmas (I didn't have a garage at that house) and just laid it on the ground until spring. Even if I had dug a hole in October, the soil around it would have been frozen by the end of December. Maybe protect the root ball with layers of some kind of insulating material--or maybe since it's a cold weather tree, the roots can freeze and it will still live.
This was in Connecticut. It wasn't a huge tree, just a Blue Spruce average size Christmas tree. Whatever I did, the tree lived and thrived.
Once when we had first christmas in this house here tree was a well rooted in pot pine tree. Kept it moist and moved it into the garden early january winter that year was mild not much cold/frost and today it is a tall christmas tree very nicely grown.
I loved seeing different sized pines in people's yards in CT. I'm sure they were Christmas trees planted through theyears.
Probably evergreens/conifers, not pines. Spruces are used for Christmas trees, not pine trees. White Pines are extremely common here and they are a junk tree. They are the first to grow where developers have ruined the soil or fire has destroyed the forest. Up springs a White Pine. Trouble is, they grow tall and spindly, their brittle branches constantly snap off and make a mess, their roots are shallow so they tend to get blown over easily. The lower branches all break off until you only have branches up near the top. The trees and their branches fall onto houses, cars, and power lines. Some neighbor used to call them petticoat trees--something like that--because the few branches that remain at the top look like a little skirt.
Also, they are constantly dropping pine cones for you to rake up. If they're not dropping pine cones, they're dropping pine needles for you to rake up. Terrible yellow pollen in the spring to be allergic to. They grow really fast so if you are so unfortunate as to have one in your yard, you will have to trim it often. The wood is very soft and not good for burning or for making much of anything. I always used to wonder if there is anything good about the White Pine.
They also reproduce really fast so you have to keep pulling up baby pine trees. AND, if you are unfortunate enough to have one near your driveway, the sap drops onto cars and makes the paint peel off. My parents lived in a place called Pine Valley--so I know, LOL. How we hated those seemingly innocent pine trees!
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